“I bought this place for a pittance, because it was a dump. Rejected, abandoned, unwanted. Like me. I fixed it up. Made… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. Nico hesitated.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Your father abandoned us. (Zephyra) I know. You’ve told me that enough that it’s permanently seared into my brain. Still, he’s a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“He sat by a gray window in the gray light in an abandoned house in the late afternoon and read old newspapers… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life,… — Michael Moschen Copy Share Image
And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results. — William P. Perry Copy Share Image
If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that… — Maurissa Tancharoen Copy Share Image
I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
“Someone was always leaving and never coming back. The wooden houses wait like old wives along this road; they are everywhere, abandoned,… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
If you leave someone at least tell them why, because whats more painful than being abandoned; is knowing youre not worth an… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
“Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
I need an endorphin boost.” “And making out in an abandoned barn with me will give you one?” “No, it will probably… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Mainstream media has been abandoned by many, for ideological reasons mostly, and brands need to directly engage with the end-user of information… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
For me, I never abandoned the truck. Even though I’ve opened other things, the truck is still the lifeblood of who I… — Roy Choi Copy Share Image
If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
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